Leica Minilux Bresson

The key is when you take a picture framing, ie the choice of what to include or not in the frame. This choice is not always easy, sometimes we take a picture and then realizing that it could be different and better if we had included another story.

What happens then?

Meanwhile we have to check if what we see in the viewfinder equivalent to what will be taken, it seems trivial but it is not because the low-end SLR cameras have viewfinders small and medium frame that usually 90% of the field then find ourselves in the picture and that means that we must teach the mind to think, taking into account for this discrepancy.

Another trivia to keep in mind is that a photo can be cropped to remove something but do not create something that had eluded us then you should try to take pictures of wide-ranging and then decide whether to keep so or crop.

In many courses inculcate fixed rules to compose the picture but in my opinion are just silly, such as photography, painting is something intimate and personal and the photographer must feel free to frame what and how wants to account only to itself without going to think about what others will perceive by looking at the pictures because otherwise it will not be able to give her a soul.

We have the case of a landscape, we have for example the mountains, the valley and maybe a piece of grass and, of course the sky, giving greater importance to what? It depends. The rule that would give the same value to the various elements trying to divide the frame into equal portions, in my opinion but you have to give importance to what affects us personally at that time. If the sky is full of clouds and creates a nice contrast with the mountains is no use going to frame the lawn, focus on the element of greatest impact if our intent is to convey a sense of magnitude that might send us there.

often I will say that the photography courses are useless and I am convinced, can make sense until you stop to give the basic concept with regard to camera settings, as they teach to read what they say the numbers that appear on the display but that's it. The reason for my belief is that the photograph must be lived by the photographer in a personal and not entangled in rules that eventually lead to create thousands of identical photographs in a given situation because everyone is careful to respect the rules and not allow themselves to go experimentation and creative individual.

Framing in photography is our point of view than the world pass us by, we are the center at that time, the filter that decides what is worthy of being remembered and what is superfluous , is part of the photograph in which we acquire the title of photographer, the rest can be enough electronics to manage the light, the ISO, the time and diaphragms.

My advice then is to cultivate your creative side, look for the interesting detail even in trivial, see what the other escapes, constantly seeking to take first place in order to affirm yourself, directors d ' orchestra and then orchestranti.